Art and History
With a major restoration, completed in 2015, Palazzo Cucchiari, home of the Giorgio Conti Foundation, has been returned to the…
Little remains today of the “rocca gagliardissima di muraglie” that constituted the “castle of Lavenza,” described in 1602 by Alberico…
The Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara was born, in 1769, as a school of drawing from the nude: the…
It has dominated Carrara’s cathedral square with its imposing bulk for centuries: it is a marble statue of colossal proportions,…
This brief itinerary among the public monuments of Massa and Carrara starts from Piazza Mercurio, the ancient market square in…
At the beginning of the twentieth century the economy of Carrara experienced a very strong economic growth, sustained by favorable…
Carrara’s historic center has come down to us almost intact, and is fully legible in the different phases of its…
While Marina di Carrara experienced a purely industrial development, with the expansion of port facilities and railroad connections, Marina di…
Via VII Luglio in Carrara commemorates a pivotal episode in the town’s history, the Carrara Women’s Uprising of July 7,…
Situated in the hills of Lunigiana, in the province of Massa-Carrara, the Castello Malaspina of Fosdinovo is one of the…
The Gothic Line represents one of the most complex and dramatic pages of World War II in Italy. This system…
The Via Francigena, also called Francisca or Romea, is not, as one might think, a single road, but is part…
In spite of its very small size, the municipality of Montignoso has experienced important passages from the historical point of…
Luni was a city founded by the Romans at the mouth of the Magra River in 177 B.C. as a…
Carrara is unanimously recognized, internationally, as the capital of anarchy and this is certainly due to its history that sees…
When one thinks of Carrara, only one thing comes to mind: its marble. Quarried and used since Roman times, the…
The Museo Audiovisivo della Resistenza of the Provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara is located in Fosdivovo, in the…